ITX8050

LOCKED SHIELDS 2016 version

• Instructor: Kaur Kasak
• Topic: Exercise Locked Shields 2016. Student's role: Test Run Blue Team, Execution White Team support
• Objectives:
  • Provide the students a practical experience in assembling a defensive team and preparing a defensive campaign according to exercise scenario. This will be accomplished by engaging the students into the Blue Teams of LS16 Test Run.
  • Provide the students an experience in responding to full-scale cyber attack campaign by tasking them to protect exercise networks during one day lasting attack campaign.
  • Use the help of the students to run LS16. Provide the students insight how technical cyber defence exercises are organized. The students will be engaged into the White Team after the Test Run.
• Limitation:
  • 3 Student Blue Teams, (up to) 12 + 12 + 12 students
  • LS16 will be UNCLASS exercise, but participation is only open to persons who have nationality of a NATO nation.
• First meeting: TBD Feb 2016
• All other information will be provided through another collaboration environment. In case you have registered but have not received the invitation by TBD Feb 2016, please contact kaur.kasak [ at ] gmail.com

STRATEGY / CYBER CHALLENGE PREP version

• Instructor: Tiia Sõmer
• Topic: management of cyber security at a strategic level. The course will be taught by invited speakers (from Estonia and international), putting main effort to the practical side of strategic cyber security. The course is also designed to prepare students for the 9/12 Cyber Challenge, but participation does not guarantee a slot on the TUT team.
• First meeting: 05 Nov 2015 at 1800-1930 in ICT-315

Schedule

NB! Check for updates regularly!

05.11

Introduction to the course (Tiia Sõmer) Meedia:001_05NOV15.pptx

Strategic issues in cyber security (Rain Ottis)

Cyber Challenge 2015 experience (Wael AbuSeada)

12.11

International actors in cyberspace, role of small states in international arena (Liina Areng) Meedia:002_12NOV15_LA.pdf

E-Diplomacy (Tanel Sepp)

=== 19.11 -> 20.11

PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE OF DATE TO 20NOV 2015 !!!

THE LECTURE WILL BE HELD IN THE SAME ROOM AS USUALLY: ICT 315

UN and Cyber Security (Peter Pedak) Meedia:003_20NOV15_PP

EU and cyber security. EU Cyber Security Structure. The functioning of EU (Luukas Ilves)

NATO and Cyber Security (Hannes Krause) Meedia:004_20NOV15_HK.pdf

26.11 -> 27.11

PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE OF DATE TO 27 NOV 2015 !!!

THE LECTURE WILL BE HELD IN THE SAME ROOM AS USUALLY: ICT 315

General principles of International law applicable in cyberspace (Pascale Brangetto)

Role of Defense Forces in national and International cyber security

Law of Armed Conflict in cyber

Countermeasures and sanctions

Territorial Sovereignity and integrity in cyberspace

Comparative analysis of cyber security strategies (Kadri Kaska)

Writing policy briefs (Dr Mika Kerttunen)

03.12 -> 07.12

DATE HAS BEEN CHANGED TO 07 DECEMBER

Cyber security and national security. Decision-making on cyber at national level. (Kristjan Prikk)

Critical Infrastructure and Critical Information Infrastructure (Urmo Sutermäe)

Crisis Management in Cyber (Lauri Luht)

10.12

Media involvement/ role in cyber crisis (Raul Rebane)

International cooperation in solving crisis of cyber nature (Tanya Collingridge, Head of International Cyber Policy, UK FCO Cyber Policy Dept)

WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT =

This assignment can be completed either individually or as teamwork. In individual task, you will have to provide one policy recommendation; in case you opt for teamwork you should provide policy recommendations from one perspective per person in the group. The maximum group size can be 4 persons. Deadline for submission of written assignment is 10 January 2016.

INSTRUCTIONS

You are cyber security advisor to the Government of one country. A major cyber incident is occurring that affects the country’s national security. The Head of Government needs information on the full range of ongoing crisis and policy response alternatives available to respond, and you have been tasked to develop policy recommendation to the Government. You should provide policy recommendation from one of the following perspectives:

- Crisis management at national level;

- Critical infrastructure;

- Private sector;

- Diplomacy/ international organisations;

- Legal;

- Cyber security.

To present your policy recommendation, you will have to keep in mind all aspects in order to successfully synthesize useful policy measures from the limited information available.

You will be provided with fictional information on the background and current situation of a major cyber attack. The scenario will present a fictional account of political and economic developments leading up to the cyber incident. You are restricted to the facts provided within the coming week in order to formulate your analysis. You will have to provide a WRITTEN POLICY PAPER of 1500 words. This will be an analytical paper, discussing the potential implications of the cyber attack for different state and non-state actors and exploring one policy recommendation from selected perspective as chosen in depth.

Some tips:

- Don’t fight the scenario – assume the information given is true, and explore the implications of that information, not plausibility of scenario.

- Be creative – cyber policy is an evolving discourse and there is no single correct policy response to any scenario. There can be many ideas to experiment with in responding to crisis.

- Analyse the issues – it will be more important to analyse the issues than to list all possible problems or solutions.

Information on background and current situation of cyber attack affecting the country:

will be added in the first week of December.